The London Olympic Games opened on Friday. Many people will be watching the games, keeping up with friends and playing their own Olympic games on mobile phones, smartphones and tablets. Olympic athletes will be using their Samsung Galaxy S III they received, while Team U.S.A are using free AT&T mobile devices. The Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note were featured in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies.

We've rounded up the top ten best Olympic apps and mobile websites available. Unfortunately, NBC has locked down the live streaming to those with subscriptions.

NBC Olympics offers apps for the iPhone and for Android phones. To use Olympics Live Extra app for streaming video you have to be MSNBC or CNBC subscriber through cable, satellite or FiOS. Excellent information is available at the NBC Olympics mobile website.

Official London 2012 Results App app offers all the latest news, schedules and results, allowing users to keep up-to-date with the latest action live across all Olympic sports and Paralympic sports.

The Official London 2012 mobile game features nine Olympic games, including Archery, Double Trap Shooting, 110m Hurdles and Swimming, in authentic London 2012 venues. Easy to play but difficult to master. Users can design, train and improve their athlete just the way they want. There are three different modes: training mode, Olympic mode and Challenge mode. Download.

Social Media Widgets & Zomph:

To herald the "Socialympics," Zoomph — a social media engagements and analytics tool launched by MetroStar Systems, Inc. — has created free, unique social media widgets for fans around the world. Featured widgets include ing a

A heat map combining stats on countries' Twitter activity with a tally of medals won

A noise-free stream of tweets from athletes, coaches and fans

Interactive displays for broadcast on TVs and online.

PlayUp, the first social network app exclusively for sports fans, socializers and gamers, announced today the launch of PlayUp 3.1, becoming the first international fan engagement platform where Olympic fans worldwide can socialize over the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Fans across the globe can follow almost every competition that takes place throughout the duration of the Games, which commence on July 27 and run through August 12. iOS only.

Be careful when using Olympics apps because according to TrendMicro, "Pinterest has become the social media platform of choice among criminals; the top 5 social engineering lures being used across all social networking sites are: Diablo 3, Instagram Android, Angry Birds Space, London 2012 Olympics and Tibet."

This year's Olympic Games are more digital than ever because viewers can follow the events through their choice of device. According to survey results released in July by TechBargains.com 46 percent of viewers will watch on laptops, 39 percent on desktops, 31 percent on tablets, and 27 percent on smartphones.

The 2012 London Olympics has prompted record levels of publishing activity focused on the Games, according to Bowker Books In Print, a leading and reliable source of information on books and publishing metrics. One hundred twenty books – in print and e-versions.

*According to XDA Developers forum a way to get the BBC Android work in the USA (you can't download it from the Play store in the US) using the "Market Enabler" app, however, the BBC is only streaming video to the U.K. Since ISP addresses show country it may be difficult to hack further. Please let us know if you found a hack that we are not aware of for watching streaming video of the games through any platform in the comments section below. We tried viewing videos from the BBC using a proxy but were unable to view the videos. It looks like NBC locked up the U.S. for it own use.

I tried to find video of parts of the opening ceremonies that I missed. It looks like the Olympic Committee locked up all the video. Someone posted it on YouTube and it was immediately removed. So last night I was stucck watching BMW commercials waiting for Sir Paul.

I like the Olympics apps because the ads are smaller. I find it really interesting that the products that sponsor the Olympics are things the athletes would probably never use for example BMW, they probably don't drink Coca-Cola and their Visa cards are are probably maxed out.

I don't know how an athlete would find the time to twet after swimming,running or pole vaulting. But they deserve the Samsung Galaxy S III, so that they can sell it on eBay when they get back home and afford to eat something good.